[Nfbmo] I-Phone could take the win out of KNFB Reader.

[Fred Olver]

I'm not sure, Brian, but I'll be making a trip to the Apple store to discuss 
the rate for use of it. If nothing else it is a hand-held, portable scanner 
usable in restaurants, stores and on the go.

Fred

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] I-Phone could take the win out of KNFB Reader.


> hi,
>
> any chance these phones have an option for not having to pay 30-60 bucks a 
> month?
>
> Bryan Schulz
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Olver" <goodfolks at charter.net>
> To: <Blindad at babel-fish.us>; <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: <msb-alumni at googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:17 AM
> Subject: [Nfbmo] I-Phone could take the win out of KNFB Reader.
>
>
>> the I phone will have an OCR  app soon.  thus no need to pay two grand 
>> for the kurzweil reader , phone , and talks or moble speak.   the 3 g as 
>> well as the new 4g phone will work with  this OCR software. and the I 
>> phone has it's own speech software which is FREE. So  go and listen to 
>> the file below and see for yourself.
>>
>> SayText is an app designed especially for the visually impaired and by 
>> the way, it's free! In a few words to describe it's use, you need to 
>> place the iPhone on the center of a document. There's a big button for 
>> starting the tool, tap it. ?Slowly elevate the i Phohne upwards from the 
>> document until you hear a beep sound - this indicates, that the document 
>> is now fully in frame and the camera will shoot automatically, when the 
>> picture is stable / focused. ?Now only thing you have to do, is to wait 
>> for a few seconds. (You can tap the screen to hear the OCR progress, e.g. 
>> OCR 35%). ?When the OCR is ready you can start the voiceover to read the 
>> document out loud. The app should come to Appstore in a week or so. There 
>> is a website for SayText:
>> http://www.docscannerapp.com/saytext/
>>
>> There's also a video, where Mr. Heikki Ekola, a totally blind person uses 
>> it. He's representing the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired - 
>> You can find the video here:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlWJF27IdX4
>>
>> This video is also at the SayText homepage.
>> http://www.docscannerapp.com/saytext/
>>
>>
>> Fred Olver
>>
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